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wmkolcz
wmkolcz
Inspiring
February 9, 2010
Question

Does Adobe hate xml tags that start with an underscore? <_TYPE_>

  • February 9, 2010
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I am trying to generate XMl document using a template and filling in values using CF. There are 4 nodes that start with an underscore (which i cannot change due to where the XML is being used)

    <_ASSET_>Media_C<_ASSET_>
    <_ITEMNAME_>#videoURL#<_ITEMNAME_>
    <_TYPE_>YouTube<_TYPE_>
    <_ITEMDESCRIPTION_><![CDATA[#title#]]><_ITEMDESCRIPTION_>
    <_GROUP_Media_Parent>Pressreleases<_GROUP_Media_Parent>

First weird thing was when I tried to close the nodes in Dreamweaver, then save it and reopen it, DW removed them again and again...So I edited in NotePad, which kept them there...

However when i ran the script in ColdFusion, it removed them again.

Here is my code.

        <cfoutput query="videoData">
        <cfsavecontent variable="theXML"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<document>
    <_ASSET_>Media_C</_ASSET_>
    <_ITEMNAME_>#videoURL#</_ITEMNAME_>
    <_TYPE_>YouTube</_TYPE_>
    <_ITEMDESCRIPTION_><![CDATA[#title#]]></_ITEMDESCRIPTION_>
    <_GROUP_Media_Parent>Pressreleases</_GROUP_Media_Parent>   
    <youtube_url>#videoURL#</youtube_url>
    <media_height>265</media_height>
    <media_width>320</media_width>
    <media_text_equivalent></media_text_equivalent>
    <media_title></media_title>
    <media_author></media_author>
    <media_date></media_date>
    <media_thumbnail></media_thumbnail>
    <media_duration></media_duration>
    <media_summary></media_summary>
    <video_keywords></video_keywords>
    <video_closed_captions></video_closed_captions>
    <video_audio_description></video_audio_description>
</document>
                </cfsavecontent>
            <cffile action = "write" output="#theXML#" file = "E:\Inetpub\wwwroot\prmc\XMLPorter\completed\newsroom\video\#videoURL#.xml">
        </cfoutput>

I assume it has something to do with the underscore...but what? All the rest of the nodes stay closed and DW/CF has no issue with them..

Any ideas on how to get the end nodes closed off for good at generation?

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2 replies

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
February 9, 2010

Ok, I think I see what you are talking about.

Dreamweaver does not seeem to like something about cutting and pasting and saving a file with </_...> tags.  It does remove them at the point of saving the file.

But once I added them back and saved the file all worked fine.

So it does look like a bug with Dreamweaver.... you may want to report it.

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
February 9, 2010

It worked for me, once I modified the pasted code to include closing versions of the underscore tags.

<cfsavecontent variable="theXML"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<document>
<_ASSET_>Media_C</_ASSET_>
<_ITEMNAME_>videoURL</_ITEMNAME_>
<_TYPE_>YouTube</_TYPE_>
<_ITEMDESCRIPTION_><![CDATA[#title#]]></_ITEMDESCRIPTION_>
<_GROUP_Media_Parent>Pressreleases</_GROUP_Media_Parent>   
<youtube_url>videoURL</youtube_url>
<media_height>265</media_height>
<media_width>320</media_width>
<media_text_equivalent></media_text_equivalent>
<media_title></media_title>
<media_author></media_author>
<media_date></media_date>
<media_thumbnail></media_thumbnail>
<media_duration></media_duration>
<media_summary></media_summary>
<video_keywords></video_keywords>
<video_closed_captions></video_closed_captions>
<video_audio_description></video_audio_description>
</document>
</cfsavecontent>
<cffile action = "write" output="#theXML#" file = "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\videoURL.xml">

wmkolcz
wmkolczAuthor
Inspiring
February 9, 2010

I ran your code (changing the destination) and it came out like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<document>
<_ASSET_>Media_C<_ASSET_>
<_ITEMNAME_>videoURL<_ITEMNAME_>
<_TYPE_>YouTube<_TYPE_>
<_ITEMDESCRIPTION_><![CDATA[Blacks not receiving chemotherapy for rectal cancer, despite seeing cancer specialists, U-M study finds]]><_ITEMDESCRIPTION_>
<_GROUP_Media_Parent>Pressreleases<_GROUP_Media_Parent>  
<youtube_url>videoURL</youtube_url>
<media_height>265</media_height>
<media_width>320</media_width>
<media_text_equivalent></media_text_equivalent>
<media_title></media_title>
<media_author></media_author>
<media_date></media_date>
<media_thumbnail></media_thumbnail>
<media_duration></media_duration>
<media_summary></media_summary>
<video_keywords></video_keywords>
<video_closed_captions></video_closed_captions>
<video_audio_description></video_audio_description>
</document>

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
February 9, 2010

To expand on my second post, I noticed that Dreamweaver elminiated all the slashes in the underscore tags the first time I saved the file after I copied and pasted the xml.

But when I went in and typed the slashs back into the closing tags and saved the file a second time, it all worked correctly.

That is all the farther I tested it.

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